"Is this what a heavenly tribulation is supposed to look like?!"
Shendu stared at the colossal sword that held up the heavens and muttered blankly to himself.
Xue Lian's expression was equally grave. The changes in the heavenly tribulation had already proven Fang Xiao's extraordinary nature.
"This is likely his final tribulation.
We should make our preparations as well, in case the brat tries to escape amid the chaos.
If things prove impossible, we should settle him once and for all."
One had to know that there was competition even among the Devil Race's lower realms.
The reason Xue Lian and the others had begun recruiting powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators everywhere after arriving in the Taichang Realm was to strengthen the overall power of their Tian Luo Realm.
After all, the Devil Realm differed from the Spirit Realm. It possessed an extremely strong desire to control its lower realms and believed in the law of the jungle, where the weak were prey to the strong.
Only if the Tian Luo Realm became powerful enough would it have a better chance of drawing the Devil Realm's attention, thereby attracting mighty figures willing to invest in arrangements within the lower realm.
The weak, meanwhile, could only become nourishment for the strong. It was rather like survival of the fittest.
Xue Lian and the others were so proactive for a simple reason: they wished to establish contact with the Devil Realm and find the protection of a powerful force, thereby gaining aid in breaking through to Void Refinement.
And if Fang Xiao could join the Tian Luo Realm, then with the talent he had displayed, he might well catch the eye of some great figure in the Devil Realm.
Xue Lian and the others could use that as a stepping stone, securing benefits